Road scraper



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ROAD SCRAPER.

' APPLICATION FILED IAN-26. 1921.

Patented June 6, 1922..

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ROAD: SCRAPEB.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 26, 192].

1,418,465. Patented June 6, 1922.

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citizen of th'e'United States, and a resident A further object of the invention is to provide a road scraper or scoop having a novel operating means which is within reach of the operator of a tractor to which the scraper or scoop is attached. 1

Still another object of the invention is to provide a KZOIItI'Ol mechanism for dump ng and resetting the scoop or scraper whlch may be installed on various types of scoops or scrapers.

With the preceding and other objects and advantages in mind that may become apparent from the following disclosure, the invention consists in the novel eombinationof elements, construction and arrangement of parts and operations to be herelnafter referred to, claimed and illustrated in the ac- .companying drawings, wherein:

trol lever supporting means.

Referring in detail to the drawings wherein similar characters of reference designate similar parts throughout the several views, the numeral 5 designates a conventional road scraper or scoop provided with a rearwardly extending handle 6 and further provided with side rails or guards 7 which extend parallel to the upper and forward edges of the scoop. A tractor or other draft means is designated at 8 and to which the scoop 5 is attached by means of a clevis 9.

Extending transversely across the scoop 5 at its upper edge and secured to the guards 7 is a horizontal bar 10. Secured to the-bar Specification of Letters Batent. I Patented June 7 Application filed January 26, 1921. Serial No. 440,004.

10 are pairs ofisjaaced uprights 11 pro-- vided with registering longitudinally al'ined' openings 12. Arranged between the pairs of uprights 11 is a vertically adjustable cross piece or fulcrum member 13, thelatter being held in adjusted position by means of removable pins 14 passing sired openings 12."

A relatively short chain'or' other flexible element 15 has one end attached to the handle 6 adjacent its inner end while its opposite end is connected with a ring 16 slid-v ably mounted on the handle 6. Resting on the cross piece or fulcrum member 13 is an operating lever 17 which has its forward end disposed in proximityto the tractor 8 so that the operator thereof may grasp the through the desame in order to dump or reset the scraper without dismounting from the tractor. This lever 17 is slidably engaged with the ring 16 and is formed with a vertical extension 18 at its rear end which terminates in a laterally disposed hook 19 that normally overlies and engages the handle 6. I

In operation the lever 17 is rotated to dis engage the hook 19 from the handle 6. The operator then rocks the lever 17 downwardly which raises the handle 6 to tilt the scoop; Upon raising the control lever the scoop 5 .will be set in operative position. The lever is then rotated to dispose the hook 19 over the handle 6 as shown in Figure 1.

I It is to be understood that the form of my invention herein shown and described is to be taken as a preferred example of the same, and that various changes in the shape,

size and arrangement of parts may be resorted to without-departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the subjoined claims.

Having thusdescribed my invention, What I claim as new and desire to secure and pro- 1. The combination with a road scoop and draft means therefor, of a bar extending tect by Letters Patent of the United States,

transversely across the scoop at the upper,

edge thereof, a dumping and resetting lever resting on the bar and having one end operatively connected with the scoop and its opposite end disposed within reach of the operator of the draft means.

2. The combination with a road scoop havwardly extending handle," of a fulcrum bar extending transversely across the scoop at its upper edge, an operating lever resting on the fulcrum bar and having one end operatively connected with the handle.

4. The combination with a road scoop provided with a forwardly extending clevis for connection to draft means and a rearwardly extending handle, of a fulcrumbar extending transversely across the scoop at lts upper edge a flexible element attached to the handle, an element carried by the flexible element free to slide on the handle an operating lever resting on the fulcrum bar and having slidable engagement with said slidable element, and a laterally disposed hook carried .by the lever and normally engaged with the handle.

' 5. The combination with a road scoop to be attached to draft means and provided with side rails along its upper and forward edges, and also provided with a rearwa'rdly extending handle,- of a cross barmounted upon the side rails, pairs of spaced uprights secured to the cross bar a fulcrum bar vertically adjustable between the pairs of uprights, a dumping and resetting lever resting on the fulcrum bar, and operative connections between the operating lever handle.

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